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THE NETACTIVIST - ONLINE PROTEST
http://www.go.to/netactivist


The Netactivist is a new homepage in English and Danish, made for people 
who want to make a difference.
Activism on the Internet can never replace demonstrations, blockades, 
public meetings, happenings, working in organizations and so on - but it 
can be a supplement. 
The idea behind this site is quite like the one organisations like Amnesty 
International have used for many years: to try an place pressure on the 
power holders by sending loads of letters from all over the world.  
So email one person send will just be one among many and in itself it will 
have little importance - but it will be part of something bigger, and that 
makes it important! 
We start up with two "Freedom for"  campaigns:

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an afro-american journalist and civil rights activist. 
He is wrongfully convicted of the murder of the white police officer 
Daniel Faulkner.
Mumia's innocence has been proven - several times and with a number of 
justifications. The Defence has put forward over 80 different evidences 
for Mumia - all of which in a just court of law would have lead to 
acquittal. 
But Mumia Abu Jamal was sentenced to death and has been sitting on death 
row in Pennsylvania (US) since 1982 - in over 17 years.

Leonard Peltier is a Native American serving two consecutive life 
sentences in a federal penitentiary, even though there is no credible 
evidence that he is guilty of anything. But the FBI is quilty of 
fabricating evidence and theatning vitnesses under the trial.
In december 1995, US prosecutor Lynn Crooks admitted that no evidence 
exists against Peltier. He further stated that he government never really 
accused him of murder and that if Peltier were retried, the government 
could not reconvict.

And finally a protest campaign for Elin Gonzales return to his father on 
Cuba:
Elin Gonzles is a six-year-old boy, who has been caught in a US foreign 
policy power game.
His mother fled with him in a boat heading for Miami. Neither his father 
nor other family was informed. 
Druring the fled his mother drowned, and American authorities under 
pressure from exil-cubans are now detaining him. 
His father, grandparents and the Cuban government demand his return to his 
father.  
US federal immigration authorities, INS, decided that Elin should return, 
but the verdict was appealed and converted.

THE NETACTIVIST - http://go.to/netactivist



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